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Gold/Mining/Energy : ECHARTERS
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To: Diamond Daze who wrote (1405)11/10/1997 2:42:00 PM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (2) of 3744
 
Romans used fire assaying with much the same fluxes. Georgius Agricola, a german, who wrote De Res Metallica in 1415 describes the process.

The celts, my drunken ancestors used fluxes to make high carbon steel 5000 years before j&J christ. Explains 3 prong chariot scythes that cut phosphor bronze greaves at 80 miles an hour. Mild steel or wrought iron couldn't do that.

African slaves had platinum necklaces they smelted in natural nuclear furnaces in the congo when portugese fisherman went up that river 2000 years ago. whoops! got carried away. some of the above is true though.
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